From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4 Description of problem: Sometime mc can't start because of a gpm socket blocking. When it happens again, i will include a strace. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: Not reproducable Actual Results: blank screen appears but no mc Expected Results: mc appearing Additional info: stopping gpm service will "solve" the problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168076 ***